We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the Information Technology track in the upcoming 2017 13th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2017), to be held from 29-31 July 2017 in Guilin, China. Topics include (but are not limited to): Communications and Networking, Automation and Control, Software Engineering, Information Security, etc.. The deadline for the 2nd (final) round of submissions is 16 May 2017 (papers already submitted in the previous round should not be re-submitted and will receive review notifications on 15 April).

Guilin has long been praised as the most picturesque place in China, as an old Chinese saying goes: "Guilin mountain/water scenery is the best under heaven." Embraced by lofty hills with the winding Li River flowing through, Guilin boasts magnificent natural beauty and many precious cultural relics, most famously the Elephant Trunk Hill, Reed Flute Cave, Seven-Star Park, Folded Brocade Hill, plus limpid lakes, grotesque rocks, unique rice terraces and minority villages.

As with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences, all papers in conference proceedings will be submitted to EI Compendex, Scopus, and ISTP (ISI Proceedings), as well as IEEE Xplore (all previous ICNC-FSKD conferences from 2005 to 2016 have been indexed in Ei Compendex). Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in SCIE-indexed international journals, such as Soft Computing (Impact Factor: 1.63), Neurocomputing (Impact Factor: 2.39), Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Impact Factor: 0.942). ICNC-FSKD 2017 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (pending).

ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, robotics, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. The registration fee of US-D460 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions.